I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.